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Reflection on Michael Moore / Jeff Gibb's Earth Day 2020 film - The Plant of the Humans - and how it relates to the compassionate, altruistic, love based, "world savers" among us.  (I'm BCCing this to a few other folks as well :-)  If you haven't seen it, I imagine you will, or should, and then this reflection would make greater sense; the link is at the bottom in Jeff's email to me (and other BCCs).  -- Aaron 2020-05-04 updated -- Added reflection following a rebuttal by well known speaker in environmentalism (see below the letter). ******* Hi Jeff, I just finished watching your film, "The Planet of the Humans" at 2x speed, which is how I watch everything now-a-days due to so much information I'm trying to take in and make sense of each day.  I appreciate that you finally published it. I recall back in 2010 or 2011 or so, we were chatting about northern Michigan and the Local Future conferences, and if I notice correctly from the ...

Mostly my research and reading from 2020 04 04 Saturday Hints: while watching videos, try 2x speed first, and then step down to whatever is comfortable.  Some videos can be viewed at 2x for a lot of the time, but then need to be rewound, or slowed down, for second time through Steve Keen is great, but he's not the only economist that is communicating those messages: Stephanie Kelton Dr Stephanie Kelton On Modern Monetary Theory - YouTube  -- does not seem to be aware of debt bubble Stephanie Kelton: MMT, the Crisis, and the Real Economy - YouTube Stephanie Kelton - Wikipedia Michael Hudson The Radical Imagination | Imagining How the World of Finance Really Works - YouTube  -- start at 9:00 or 9:11 -- classical economist Michael Hudson (economist) - Wikipedia www.levyinstitute.org/scholars/michael-hudson Michael Hudson Michael Hudson, Author at Evonomics Of course, understanding money/credit/debt is just one aspect of understanding how things ...

Birth Day 2020 It is my birthday. I’m now 50. And, being halfway to 100, in a way, it feels like this ride is halfway over, and I wonder to myself, what will be next? Looking back, I’ve always wanted to do something to make things better; something to help “save the world”. I think this feeling was always there. I remember back to when I was just starting to think of the answer to the question, “why are you here?”, and there were these TV commercials about the famine in Ethiopia, and not just commercials, but at church we also were encouraged to collect money in a “rice bowl” (made of paper folded into a box that looked sort of like a bowl with a top and a slit in the lid to put in coins) so that rice could be bought to feed the people there, and I had that rice bowl in my room, and I think I may have taken it by bus to the school, and I just wanted to be able to help the people I was a bit of an odd duck at that time. My parents lived far back off the road, and my backya...